For many years I have advocated the concept that fraud and ID theft grows, like mushrooms, in the dark. In light of an almost daily barrage of news stories detailing the most recent million or hundred million identities to have been stolen there is an understandable yet very wrong tendency to believe that hiding identity information will keep it safe. The opposite is actually true. There is information that no-one needs to know and information that everyone needs to know and information that just a few need to know. Identity actually falls into the last category, not the first. [More]